Senior Software Engineer - Payroll

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.8B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes.

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About The Team The Payroll Imports & Onboarding team builds the platform that enables customers to move onto Rippling payroll with speed, accuracy, and minimal manual effort. We own the end-to-end onboarding and payroll import experience across **40+ countries** provider migration workflows, file ingestion and classification, mapping and validation systems, import processing pipelines, completion workflows, and post-import reporting.

Our systems sit at the center of a broad platform surface. We integrate closely with run management, payroll filings, withholdings, tax engine, entity management, payroll setup, and other downstream payroll components to ensure imported data turns into correct payroll configuration and payroll runs. This is a highly cross-functional platform team where communication is critical: success depends not just on building reliable systems, but on designing clear interfaces and coordinating effectively with many partner teams.

We solve complex problems at the intersection of distributed systems, financial correctness, and operational scale. That includes validating messy source data, reconciling imported payrolls against expected outcomes, handling country- and provider-specific workflows, and building fault-tolerant automation that can safely complete imports for companies of very different sizes and levels of complexity.

Every company that onboards Rippling’s payroll product goes through our systems, which means we move fast, we build for reliability, and we treat clear cross-team communication as a core engineering skill.

**Why This Role** **Rare Opportunity** Rippling is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join the Payroll Imports & Onboarding team, one of the most strategic teams in the Global Payroll organization. This team directly impacts how quickly and successfully customers can adopt Rippling payroll by removing friction from one of the most important and operationally sensitive parts of the product: migration and onboarding.

In this role, you will architect and build the platform that powers payroll imports from previous providers into Rippling. You’ll work on ingestion pipelines, validation frameworks, import completion orchestration, reconciliation and sanity checks, provider migration workflows, and the platform interfaces that connect imports to downstream payroll systems. You’ll make pragmatic technical decisions in a high-ambiguity space, partner deeply with other engineering and operational teams, and raise the quality bar for reliability, observability, and cross-team execution.

This is an opportunity to own foundational platform work that has outsized business impact: every improvement to import accuracy, automation, speed, and self-serve capability makes it easier for customers to switch to Rippling and trust us with their payroll.

What You Will Do

• Own end-to-end development of core payroll import and onboarding capabilities, from technical design through implementation, rollout, and post-launch iteration.
• Architect and scale systems for payroll data ingestion, transformation, mapping, and validation across a wide range of providers, formats, and country-specific requirements.
• Build reliable workflows for import completion, reconciliation, sanity checks, and downstream commit creation, ensuring imported data safely propagates into payroll runs and configuration.
• Design and improve self-serve provider migration experiences, including classification, valida…